379 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2003 by Bloomsbury.
Pirates!
the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
by Celia Rees
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In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Subjects
- Pirates -- Fiction
- Blacks -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Sea stories
- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction